About.com has a biography of Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, the best-selling novel about the Holocaust. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence and oppression. And, he’s Romanian, from my native Transylvania nonetheless!
» Go to this postI’d forgotten about my bad experience with these people until they sent me some spam a couple of weeks ago. To return the favor, I’m going to tell you what I know of them, and believe me, it’s not pretty…
These days, they’ve got a new domain (davisongetresults.com) which acts as a forward to their old [...]
CNET News has photos of the Clever, a new three-wheel sub-compact vehicle released in Europe. It gets the equivalent of 108 mpg and it looks great, too! Where can I get one? (Photo courtesy of CNET News and The Clever Group)
» Go to this postDid you ever want to write presidential speeches? Well, now you can, with this nifty presidential speechwriting tool that’ll let you mix and match live clips of President Bush to create the ultimate “patriotic” speech.
» Go to this postI’m not sure if this is true or not, but the Cult of Mac blog has an entry where details about a possible next-generation iSight integrated directly into the screen are discussed. Certainly very interesting, again, not sure if it’s true. Here’s the link.
Updated 2/17/08: Well, this one didn’t materialize, even by now. [...]
Samsung is rejoicing because it won a contract from Apple for chips in the nano iPods, and snatched it from PortalPlayer. The benefits of such a move aside, I have to wonder about the language used by the Samsung people. They called their chip the “PortalPlayer-killer”, and they said they “knew PortalPlayer was going to [...]
» Go to this postTechdirt has a great post on this, as well as Dr. Michael Geist. Apparently Canadian musicians like the Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan have stood up and said they do not agree with the record industry, and that they don’t want to sue their fans, nor impose DRM schemes on them. This is [...]
» Go to this postA-HAA! has a post about Cliff Sterrett, who was once dubbed “the finest cartoonist of them all”. His comic strip, called “Polly and Her Pals”, is shown there. Here’s the link.
» Go to this postCartoon Brew has a link to Sharon Colman’s short film, “BADGERED”, which was nominated for an Oscar this year. Here’s the link to their post, and the direct link to the movie. Just saw it, love it!
» Go to this postI’ve been a user of Hotmail for several years, probably since 1998. I can’t remember the date very well, but it’s been a long time. The point is, I had a Hotmail account long before Gmail came out. Why do I say this? Because I stuck with Hotmail through the years. That’s not to say [...]
» Go to this postThe Sidney Morning Herald reports on a journalist jailed last year, who will now stand trial (after over 5 months in jail) on charges that he used his Hotmail account to send articles on unemployment and rural poverty to US-based China web portals - which aren’t popular with the Chinese government. How they got hold [...]
» Go to this postI worked on the 9th Come Across Podcast last night and posted it. In it, I talk about some big changes that may be coming soon for my websites, and I also picked the “best of” entries from my blog. Plus, if you’ve wondered what my voice sounds like, now you can find out… Here [...]
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